Andrew and eliza did purchase slaves. So they did have domestic help. It was used as a hospital. It was used as a place to stay and it was basically destroyed. Eliza being ill with tuberculosis wasnt able to get out much. Eliza received many gifts that she brought home with her. This is the room she returned to after their years in the white house. Shes just obscure, as she probably wouldve wanted it. But shes who he needed. Susan swain Abraham Lincolns assassination, just weeks after his second inaugural shocked a warravaged nation, and brought his southern democrat Vice President , Andrew Johnson, into the white house. Johnsons wife, eliza, was 54 years old and an invalid when she was thrust into the role of first lady, determined to be a helpmate to her husband as he navigated the turbulent end of the civil war, reconstruction in the south, and his own impeachment. This week on cspans first ladies, the life and times of Eliza Mccardle johnson. Good evening, and thank you for being w
In celebration of womens History Month about the women of Floyd Bennett field we will talk to you a little bit. Its one of the more significant sites in the history of aviation. It is a story that doesnt get told to much anymore, but in its day, the aviators who flew at Floyd Bennett field during the 1930s were as big of celebrities as anybody you might think of. You know, you start with the age of charles lindbergh, 1927, and really, right up until world war ii, these folks were advancing Aviation Technology at an incredible rate. When you think that the first airplane flight was in 1903 with the wright brothers, we are at the dawn of the jet age. We go from a time when it was perfectly common to have biplane wood and fabric airliners to allmental monoplane airliners capable of crossing the country at 200 miles an hour carrying 22 passengers. Thats a leap in just 10 years. Its really quite a remarkable story. The women aviators of that time were very much a part of the story. Without
Acts 25th anniversary, a panel of government officials and policymakers discuss their role in implementing the legislation. This 80 Minute Program was cohosted by the National Security archive. The carnegie corporation, the Carnegie Endowment and the Nuclear Threat initiative. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for your attention. We have some real heroes of the implementation of nonlugar. I turn this panel over to David Hoffman to moderate the biographies of these extraordinary individuals. They are in your program. I will not spend our time going over those, but i want to turn it to David Hoffman for his penetrating questions and authoritarian moderation. [laughter] david thank you all again for joining us for the second panel. You heard in the first panel some discussion about the hopes and also some of the disappointments, but where the rubber meets the road is where this panel is about. Is about implementation. And as all of us know from 25 years of experience, it is one th
Acts 25th anniversary, a panel of government officials and policymakers discuss their role in implementing the legislation. This 80 Minute Program was cohosted by the National Security archive. The carnegie corporation, the Carnegie Endowment and the Nuclear Threat initiative. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for your attention. We have some real heroes of the implementation of nonlugar. I turn this panel over to David Hoffman to moderate the biographies of these extraordinary individuals. They are in your program. I will not spend our time going over those, but i want to turn it to David Hoffman for his penetrating questions and authoritarian moderation. [laughter] david thank you all again for joining us for the second panel. You heard in the first panel some discussion about the hopes and also some of the disappointments, but where the rubber meets the road is where this panel is about. Is about implementation. And as all of us know from 25 years of experience, it is one th
Dismantling, destruction of soviet nuclear and chemical weapons. Next, former senators sam nunn and Richard Lugar marked the 25th anniversary of the initiative in the historic kennedy caucus room on capitol hill. Hopehour and 15 minute discussion and Award Ceremony was hosted by the National Security archive, the Carnegie Endowment, and the Nuclear Threat initiative. Thomas blanton ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests, just a few words of welcome today. I am tom blanton, i am director of the National Security archive at George Washington university and honored to be one of the organizers of today. This is the day that 25 years ago president george h. W. Bush signed the nunnlugar legislation into law. Now being document fetishists, we scoured the bush library for the photographs of that extraordinary moment, and none exist. There was not a signing ceremony, which gives you a sense of the kind of mixed opinion in the Bush Administration about this Congressional Initiative in foreig